page_title: Elan aqueduct
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Elan aqueduct / Route / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: Valve house pediment. Closeup of pediment of valve house in 1191309.
context_page_description: The Elan aqueduct crosses Wales and the Midlands of England, running eastwards from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Mid Wales to Birmingham's Frankley Reservoir, carrying drinking water for Birmingham.
  It delivers enormous quantities of water by gravity across the mid-Wales countryside, through north Herefordshire, south Shropshire and into the West Midlands through eleven major river valleys. The aqueduct is 73 miles long, down which the water travels at less than two miles per hour, taking one and a half days to get to Birmingham.
context_section_description: The aqueduct and its related features are visible at:
  River Wye: 52.296442°N 3.503467°W
  Valve house: 52.291594°N 3.444634°W
  Nantmel Aqueduct: 52.286113°N 3.416445°W
  Carmel Aqueduct: 52.287612°N 3.383281°W
  Bridge over culverted stream: 52.300834°N 3.216593°W
  Observation tower: 52.303591°N 3.188647°W
  Bridge over stream: 52.314798°N 3.121883°W
  Survey tower52.320521°N 3.107452°W
  Brynymor: 52.287640°N 3.383070°W
  Hidden Aqueduct: 52.334666°N 3.068550°W
  Valve house: 52.339871°N 3.045829°W
  Inspection chamber: 52.347854°N 3.004957°W
  Inspection chamber: 52.348547°N 2.980469°W
  Graham's Cottage Bridge (River Teme, Leintwardine): 52.347344°N 2.858526°W
  Downton Bridge (River Teme, Downton): 52.350831°N 2.840863°W
  Inspection chamber: 52.354799°N 2.825199°W
  Valve house: 52.359273°N 2.803600°W
  Inspection chamber: 52.360114°N 2.796648°W
  Valve house: 52.360438°N 2.793830°W
  Deepwood Dingle crossing ("80 or 90 feet high", built by Messrs. Morrison & Mason, of Glasgow.): 52.360697°N 2.789672°W
  Wheelers Vallets Dingle Crossing: 52.361508°N 2.780470°W
  Teme Bridge (River Teme, Ludlow): 52.359678°N 2.703721°W
  Ledwyche Brook: 52.3603172°N 2.6802536°W
  Inspection chamber: 52.363091°N 2.628587°W
  Bennettsend Bridge (Cumberley Lane/ Colly Brook): 52.365627°N 2.617254°W
  Hope Bagot Bridge: 52.364581°N 2.605730°W
  Corn Brook: 52.369394°N 2.581770°W
  Trig point: 52.366449°N 2.596530°W
  Valve house: 52.381486°N 2.507248°W
  Bridge over stream: 52.385448°N 2.492773°W
  River Rea: 52.387401°N 2.478847°W
  Mad Brook: 52.393083°N 2.413848°W
  River Severn: 52.40117°N 2.33145°W
  siphon: 52.414734°N 2.266107°W
  siphon: 52.416608°N 2.252064°W
  siphon: 52.429898°N 2.163124°W
  siphon: 52.429569°N 2.152842°W
  Remains of former bridge over Birmingham-Worcester railway line: 52.429318°N 2.142821°W
  Some crossings over canals and railways have been replaced by buried pipes.  The line of the buried aqueduct through woodland is marked by a 20 metres (66 ft) "exclusion zone" from which trees are removed.
caption: Pediment of valve house with "Birmingham Corporation Water" wording
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